...9 months later...
woah, I forgot livejournal existed for a while. I think I have three "friends" who still use it.
I'm currently on the 3rd of a 5 week vacation and I'm kind of bored with it right now. I'm going to Wyoming next week for a while to visit my family and then I start my masters degree classes on June 11th. I will be a full time student for the rest of the summer. During the fall I will also be a full time student, but instead of working on my master's degree, I will be working toward earning a teachers certificate in secondary education. Next spring, I will be student teaching, and the following summer I will wrap up my master's. I will be what is considered a "highly qualified" teacher with a Master's degree by August of 2008.
It feels good to have a vocational direction. It feels good to have a lot of things right now. I think it's safe to say the "identity crisis" phase of my life is over and the "rest" is just beginning. I finally have a promising career plan, and I think I'm getting proposed to soon. Yes, proposed to. After a miserable three week break up last fall, Andrew and I patched things up and have been solid ever since. We've talked a lot about the future what we want to see happen between us. Right now it's just a matter of waiting for the engagement so we can start discussing it with everyone else. I've always envisioned engagement to be a big surprise, but knowing it's coming up soon is pretty fun too. It will still be a surprise insofar as the timing goes and how he goes about it. I guess I'm at the point where I'm really excited and want to tell everyone, but at the same time I feel like I already know too much about it and should keep it a surprise for everyone else. But I'm really bad at keeping secrets, so I've made up my mind to not to talk about it for the time being. *Enter livejournal.* (public forums don't count).
Also, we are moving in together at some point this summer. I felt a little uncomfortable moving in with someone before I'm married, not because of moral reasons, though. For all -practical- purposes, the marriage is the confirming ceremony but the moving in together marks the real beginning of two lives merging into one. I'm not nervous about the proposal at all, but moving in with a BOY is a whole new story. We'll see how that goes. Either way, I wouldn't be doing it if I felt it didn't make sense, and I do feel really good about it. I just know it will be quite the adjustment too.
His best friend, Mike, bought a duplex and we're all fixing it up so that he can move in with his fiance. The plan was that I was going to move into their apartment (replacing Mike) but we ran into the issue of our dog being pent up in the apartment all the time. He's bigger than he was as a puppy and I thought we should look for a place with a yard for him to run around in. Thus, Andrew and I are moving into the other side of Mike's duplex. I think it will work out well. The four of us get along really well and hang out together most of the time anyway. If anything, it will be nice that we each have our own specific side to call our own with good friends close by. That and rent will be very cheap. Thanks Mike!
I'm on vacation, I have a cute dog, an almost fiance, and a promising and exciting career track. Things are good. Things are very good.
I'm currently on the 3rd of a 5 week vacation and I'm kind of bored with it right now. I'm going to Wyoming next week for a while to visit my family and then I start my masters degree classes on June 11th. I will be a full time student for the rest of the summer. During the fall I will also be a full time student, but instead of working on my master's degree, I will be working toward earning a teachers certificate in secondary education. Next spring, I will be student teaching, and the following summer I will wrap up my master's. I will be what is considered a "highly qualified" teacher with a Master's degree by August of 2008.
It feels good to have a vocational direction. It feels good to have a lot of things right now. I think it's safe to say the "identity crisis" phase of my life is over and the "rest" is just beginning. I finally have a promising career plan, and I think I'm getting proposed to soon. Yes, proposed to. After a miserable three week break up last fall, Andrew and I patched things up and have been solid ever since. We've talked a lot about the future what we want to see happen between us. Right now it's just a matter of waiting for the engagement so we can start discussing it with everyone else. I've always envisioned engagement to be a big surprise, but knowing it's coming up soon is pretty fun too. It will still be a surprise insofar as the timing goes and how he goes about it. I guess I'm at the point where I'm really excited and want to tell everyone, but at the same time I feel like I already know too much about it and should keep it a surprise for everyone else. But I'm really bad at keeping secrets, so I've made up my mind to not to talk about it for the time being. *Enter livejournal.* (public forums don't count).
Also, we are moving in together at some point this summer. I felt a little uncomfortable moving in with someone before I'm married, not because of moral reasons, though. For all -practical- purposes, the marriage is the confirming ceremony but the moving in together marks the real beginning of two lives merging into one. I'm not nervous about the proposal at all, but moving in with a BOY is a whole new story. We'll see how that goes. Either way, I wouldn't be doing it if I felt it didn't make sense, and I do feel really good about it. I just know it will be quite the adjustment too.
His best friend, Mike, bought a duplex and we're all fixing it up so that he can move in with his fiance. The plan was that I was going to move into their apartment (replacing Mike) but we ran into the issue of our dog being pent up in the apartment all the time. He's bigger than he was as a puppy and I thought we should look for a place with a yard for him to run around in. Thus, Andrew and I are moving into the other side of Mike's duplex. I think it will work out well. The four of us get along really well and hang out together most of the time anyway. If anything, it will be nice that we each have our own specific side to call our own with good friends close by. That and rent will be very cheap. Thanks Mike!
I'm on vacation, I have a cute dog, an almost fiance, and a promising and exciting career track. Things are good. Things are very good.